It begins with a family party, but becomes a Christmas Eve dream filled with toy soldiers in red, sequined uniforms, a sword-fighting Mouse King, dancing snowflakes and a pirouetting Sugar Plum Fairy in the Land of Sweets.
Those are some of the “...

All across sports, athletes are known to express their religious faith, from pointing to the heavens after a score to thanking their respective higher power in post-game interviews.
According to a blog post on the Economist website, FIFA, the...

The 126th Rose Parade kicked off with the Glendale High dance team appearing before millions of TV viewers across the country and abroad as they danced to the beat of Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger” and Belinda Carlisle’s “We Got...

One by one, they headed toward the concrete steps beside AMC Theater 16 in Burbank on East Palm Avenue. Shredded shirts covered their twisted bodies. Splotches of ghostly white and dark paint covered their faces as they staggered out of Johnny Rockets,...

Seventh graders at John Muir Middle School participated in their annual “Around the World Day” that had outside drummers and dancers bring their music and performances to the students in a daylong event on Friday.
Organized by the seventh grade teachers, Muir Principal Greg Miller said there were Taiko drummers, Peruvian dancers and sword play.
The day began with medieval jousting, and throughout the day, performers and dancers invited students participate in the activities.
“In every...

Betsy Uhler knew there had to be a way to combine her love for dance with her 9-to-5 gig.
She and friend Elizabeth Tramontozzi founded Los Angeles-based dance company LA Unbound, inspired by a company she danced with at Ithaca College in New York called IC Unbound. Uhler and Tramontozzi started choreographing after they moved to Los Angeles.
"We realized how many friends we had out here who were dancers and didn't have performance opportunities anymore," says Uhler, who took over, directing the...

Members of Leadership Burbank have replaced a shuffleboard court at Joslyn Adult Center with an Oasis — a mini park that seniors and the community can enjoy.
First, the team removed about 2,300 square feet of concrete, said Jeff Carlon, project leader.
A concrete walkway was poured around a circle of artificial turf. There are six benches where visitors can sit and read or eat lunch. The perimeter has been landscaped with drought-tolerant plants that are irrigated with reclaimed water.
The...

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The city’s first-ever “Rock-a-Hula” pool party for older adults drew dozens of residents donning colorful leis to the Verdugo Pool Thursday to dance to 1950s rock-and-roll and take a dip in the water.
A group of dancers, all of whom take a hula-dancing class at the Joslyn Center, performed to “Blue Hawaii,” while dozens of older adults did water Zumba in the pool in front of the band Joe Finkle and the 7/10 Splits.
PHOTOS: Burbank's first-ever "Rock-a-Hula" party
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There was no need to “ferry cross the Mersey” or even take a trip “across the pond” to enjoy the classic music of the British Invasion this past Saturday evening.
For Burbankers, just a short drive over Mount Lee to the Ford Amphitheatre provided them with an evening of outstanding entertainment as the Pacific Ballet Dance Company danced to the sounds that dominated and defined popular culture during the 1960s and ‘70s.
Billed as “The British Beat,” Saturday&...

A free Zumba party kept more than 45 people movin' and groovin' to the 1980s beat at the Abaka Center for the Performing Arts in Burbank.
Participants wore 1980s-style outfits for the August event, said studio Manager Marina Artuni, and danced to music of the era for 90 minutes led by Zumba instructors.
The dance studio is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month and Artuni said more free Zumba parties are planned for the future. The studio instructors offer classes in Armenian cultural...

Saturday's nostalgia-fueled romp across the decades proved you may get older, but some people — and hairstyles — never change.
A reunion of hundreds overtook the grand ballroom of Castaway restaurant Saturday night, bringing together the collective graduating classes of Burroughs and Burbank high schools from the 1950s on.
While acoustic versions of hits like "Johnny B. Goode" and "Play that Funky Music" pounded out onto the dance floor, a couple who met in third grade more than 30 years...